As the baseball regular season dwindled and the postseason came around, there was a common theme that manifested when talking with coaches in the postgame. Injuries. And there were a lot of them this season among Daily Times Herald coverage area teams. What’s more, they weren’t just the run-of-the-mill bumps and bruises that are to be expected from a season. Many were significant and of the season-ending variety.

Hillary Clinton said it best, “Basta - - Enough!” You don’t even have to be a fan of Hillary to agree with this condemnation of Donald Trump’s spurious remark that Sen. John McCain “was a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”

A unified Iowa Democratic Party came together Friday night in Cedar
Rapids to share their message of forward-thinking prosperity, equality
and opportunity, and to hear, for the first time, that message
articulated by all five of their presidential candidates for 2016.

Back in 1938 Orson Welles famously exposed the Great American Gullibility. With his Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles, adapting “War of the Worlds,” used a series of simulated news bulletins to convince radio listeners that aliens were attacking Earth.

It’s one of the biggest axioms in sports: scoring first is crucial to victory. That sentiment rings especially true in baseball and softball. But how accurate is that really? Sports reporters, including myself, are as guilty as any in invoking responses from winning coaches and players about how important it was that they grabbed an early lead.

1. The political spectrum of influences in the Iowa congressional
delegation has lurched to the right. For the last 30 years, Iowans, or
businesses, needing Democratic and Republican influence on Capitol Hill
had both in the form of men who became institutions, Tom Harkin and
Charles Grassley. We no longer have that, and it’s a devastating loss
for the state.

The owner of a small restaurant just off Interstate 80 in central Iowa made a provocative observation. “It’s amazing what the white man thinks he’s worth,” said this business owner, who happens to be white. He’s growing frustrated with an entitled mentality he sees in the millenial workforce.